Breaking conservation news from across the Colorado Plateau and across the country.

BY LAUREL MORALES
A tribe that lives in the Grand Canyon has filed a lawsuit to protect its water. The Havasupai Tribe filed its claim in federal district court Dec. 6.
The Havasupai are worried... Read Original Story

BY JEDIDIAH PURDY
The incoming Trump administration is likely to see the greatest revival of environmentalism as a confrontational, grassroots, sometimes radical movement since at least 1970, when... Read Original Story

BY VALERIE VOLCOVICI
Native American reservations cover just 2 percent of the United States, but they may contain about a fifth of the nation’s oil and gas, along with vast coal reserves.
Now, a... Read Original Story

BY BRIAN MAFFLY
Utah Rep. Rob Bishop took his case against the Antiquities Act to the Trump presidential transition team Monday, asking the incoming president to consider doing what none of his... Read Original Story

BY MIRIAM WASSER
With less than two months until President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office, those pressuring President Barack Obama to designate the Greater Grand Canyon National Heritage... Read Original Story

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it plans to require mining companies to show they have the financial wherewithal to clean up their pollution so taxpayers aren’t stuck footing the... Read Original Story

BY LAUREL MORALES
In his last days in office President Obama still has the power to make significant changes to the southwest.
Obama has already used the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate 23 national... Read Original Story

BY CHARLES D. BRUNT
Several environmental groups and more than 100 small businesses statewide have signed letters urging President Obama to halt future uranium mining on federal lands abutting Grand... Read Original Story